, 1887-12-24
Terrible Revelations.

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Y eSterday morn
ing Officers Kelly and Wiley arrested
Mrs. Anna Hermann, who has an en-
ploymeEt Office at No. 332 Twelfth street;
Chas. Busy, owner of meat market at
Nc. PIG Blue Island avenue, and William
Sigmund, a cigarmaker on Thirteenth
street, near Ashland avenue. The war
rant charges them conspiracy to commit
an unlawful act," and was sworn out be-
fore Justice G. j. White by Miss Kath-
arina Sievers, aged is years. The three
persons appeared later in the day before
Justice White, who continued their case
until tomorrow, holding each in SO, 900
bail. This they could not furnish, and
all were locked up in the Twelfth street
station.
If the story told by Katharine Sieyers,
which is corroborated by Ida Brade, is
true, the persons now under arrest de-
serve, and will, undoubtedly, get a long
sentence to the penitentiary. Miss Sic
vers is apparently a very innocent German
girl about IS years old, and fairly good
looking. Seated in the Office of Simon
O'Donnell yesterday she told the follow
ing pitiful story:
II came here from Germany about two
years ago., and lived for a time with a
married sister. Then | worked as a serv-
ant in q number of families. About FIVE
weeks ago | went to the employment office
of Mrs. Hermann at No. 332 Twelfth
street. Two men, whom | afterward
learned were Charles Busy, d butcher,
and William Sigmund, a cigarmaker, were
sitting in an adjoining room. Mrs. Her.
mann said she had no suitable place for
me then, but would get one in a few days.
In the meantime, she said | could remain
at her house. The first night she intro
duced me to the men, and asked me if l
didn't like Charlie. She said she was a
fortune teller, and could do a great many
wonderful things. She said she could
make people like each other and get mar
ried; that she would give Charlie some
love powder in his beer, and then he
would love me. She wanted me to take
some OF the powder, too. but | wouldn't
then; she afterward put some in my
coffee. 1t was a yellow powder of some
kind. 1t made me sick and very sleepy.
| was sleepy all the time | was at Mrs.
Hermann's. | felt bad. Every night
before she went to bed she would take
all the bread and milk and coffee in the
house into her room, and in the morning
she would have our breakfast waiting for
us"
The poor girl then related the expert
ence of the second night in the den,
when the woman Hermann awoke her
from sleep and introduced Charles Busy,
the butcher into her room, despite the
victims coaxIngs and pleadings to be
spared, and threatened to put her in jail
if she told any ono about it. After tell
ing this part of her frightlul experience
the girl resumed:
THE next day Mrs. Hermann told me
that she had given Billy Sigmund a love
She said if | would marry him she would
get me a good place to work. They
coaxed me so that | went with Billy and
he got a marriage license. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hermann went with us. She told me
when we came back that the license
was all we needed. About n week
later Mrs. Hermann got me a place at
No. 800 Halsted street. | worked there
two weeks, when | got sick and went
back to Mrs. Hermann's, where | again
met Billy. Last Sunday he told me he
never intended to marry me, and he tore
up the marriage license and burned it.
Mrs. Hermann said she didn't want me
in her house any longer, but she kept my
clothes. [ tried to get a place at an en-
plOYment Office on Halsted street, bat the
man said | must have my clothes first,
and he told me to go to the police station.
| did so, and told them all about it. |
have no friends or relatives in Chicago.
Mrs. Hermann tried to do the same thing
with another girl she did with me, but
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